Plans have been submitted for 11 glamping pods at Bluebell Woods, Caerhun.

The application to Gwynedd Council, made by Michael Williams, includes associated works, creation of permeable pathways, parking area, soft landscaping, and drainage provisions.

The pods would include a bedroom, small bathroom, kitchenette and a separate, shared toilet/shower block to allow for self-contained visits. Each pod would also have a decking area at the front.

Vehicular access to the site would be along the unnamed access road in the location of the existing access.

Access would also be “formalised and realigned in order to encourage suitable positioning of vehicles and improve the achievable visibility from the access”, the plans say.

There would be one parking space per pod, plus an additional two, for use “during the unlikely occurrence of overspill parking,” plans state.

An internal track leading through the trees towards the north-eastern part of the site would provide for “suitable access to dedicated parking areas along the track”.

Soft landscaping would be carried out in the form of new soft planting, mostly along the boundaries “to improve upon the existing vegetation/screening” whilst “additional trees are also proposed within the site,” the plans added.

Ba activity surveys carried out in August and September 2025.

A mitigation strategy included “maintaining the woodland as a suitable flight corridor and foraging area”. This was aimed at “preserving the SW half of the woodland as a dark area for bats,” the plans said.

Without mitigation, the impact would be assessed “as ‘major’ at a national level, primarily due to the effect of lighting on bat access through the woodland”.

Further ecological mitigation proposed included use of bat boxes, a lighting plan with “properly positioned and shielded lighting minimising light spill”, standard trees and 20 smaller trees used to “thicken mid-canopy” and hedging to “shield units from open areas”.